All 26 Uses
aptitude
in
Ancillary Justice
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- Inside Radch territories that accent declared her a member of a wealthy and influential house, someone who, after taking the aptitudes at fifteen, would have ended up with a prestigious assignment.†
p. 36.6
- These, and the icons, were Lieutenant Awn's personal possessions, gifts from her parents when she had taken the aptitudes and received her assignment.†
p. 44.1
- Your niece, citizen, is taking the aptitudes this year?†
p. 57.2
- "These aptitudes," said Jen Shinnan.†
p. 57.3
- The aptitudes were the only way into the military, or any government post— though that didn't encompass all assignments available.†
p. 57.4
- Oh, not that foolishness about Orsians, no, but she's right to be suspicious about the aptitudes.†
p. 60.8
- And our friend Jen Shinnan doesn't fully understand that the question can even be asked—she just knows that if you're going to succeed you've got to have the right connections, and she knows the aptitudes are part of that.†
p. 61.5
- And their children did well when they took the aptitudes, and would continue to do so, as Lieutenant Skaaiat had said.†
p. 100.2 *
- Unless, of course, I wanted to retake the aptitudes so I could get a new assignment.†
p. 130.3
- Because they didn't have my aptitudes data and even if they did it was certainly out of date.†
p. 130.3
- Physical injuries weren't an issue, the medic of whatever Mercy had picked her up would have taken care of those, but psychological or emotional ones—they might resolve on their own, and if they didn't, the doctor would need that aptitudes data to work effectively.†
p. 130.6
- But of course Seivarden had taken the aptitudes, and the aptitudes had said she was what her house had always assumed she would be: steady, fit to command and conquer.†
p. 132.2
- But of course Seivarden had taken the aptitudes, and the aptitudes had said she was what her house had always assumed she would be: steady, fit to command and conquer.†
p. 132.2
- And Seivarden wasn't the least bit afraid or worried about what new assignment a retake of the aptitudes would get her, and what that might say about her steadiness.†
p. 132.7
- The aptitudes prove that it's all just, that everyone gets what they deserve, and when the right people test into the right careers, that just goes to show how right it all is.†
p. 148.9
- If we'd stuck to so-called impartial aptitudes testing, if we'd executed more people, if we still made ancillaries ...†
p. 149.9
- You tested into military, in the aptitudes, and like a million other nobodies these days, you think that makes you somebody.†
p. 196.1
- And how could the aptitudes have put her in such a position, if she was capable of that?†
p. 229.6
- A corrupt governor appoints corrupt officials, never mind the aptitudes.†
p. 229.7
- The same drugs used for aptitudes testing and reeducation could be used for interrogation.†
p. 240.2
- Then Station asked, "Do you mean the aptitudes?†
p. 299.1
- Across from me, Seivarden was explaining to Captain Vel about the situation with her aptitudes.†
p. 313.5
- It used to be you could depend on the aptitudes to send the right citizen to the right assignment.†
p. 315.4
- What do they think the aptitudes are for?†
p. 318.7
- I remembered twenty-years-younger Lieutenant Skaaiat asking, in the humid darkness of the upper city, if the aptitudes had lacked impartiality before, or lacked them now, and answering, for herself, both.†
p. 318.8
- I mean, not just when we were young and provincials are vulgar but the aptitudes are corrupt?†
p. 319.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(aptitude) natural ability
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)